Four Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced April 24 the election of four Indian Americans among the 198 new members who include some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, and civic, corporate, and philanthropic leaders.

The four Indian Americans are Anant Agarwal, Rakesh Agrawal, Arun Majumdar and Jitendra Malik.

Anant Agarwal is the president of edX, a worldwide, online learning initiative of MIT and Harvard University, and a professor in MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. He has also served as the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is also a founder and board member of Tilera Corporation which created the Tile multicore processor.